"A 'Natural History' of the Native Tribes who in India render us Service"

Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. Bombay: Thacker & Co., Limited. London: W. Thacker & Co, 1890. Third Edition. "A 'Natural History' of the Native Tribes who in India render us Service" Behind the scenes of colonial life in India, originally published in the TIMES OF INDIA-with advice for "Engaging a.... Read More

Washington, D.C: Embassy of India, January 20, 1947. After Independence of India in 1947, Nehru made Sir Girija his principal foreign affairs adviser, appointing him the first Secretary General in the Ministry of External Affairs. In 1952, he was appointed as the Governor of Bombay State untilk his death.Read More

[Lahore: ca. 1865]. Bourne cat. # 2126.British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region from 1863-1870. "[R]ecognized as an important landscape photographer, Bourne entered a partnership with Charles Shepherd" and "became a leading supplier of Indian views" (Pare, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE, p. 251).Read More

[Darjeeling: 1869]. Bourne cat. # 1904.Four upper-class Booteas, Tibetan-speaking inhabitants of Nepal.British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region from 1863-1870. "[R]ecognized as an important landscape photographer, Bourne entered a partnership with Charles Shepherd" and "became a leading supplier of Indian views"... Read More

[India: ca. 1865]. Bourne cat. #2065.British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region from 1863-1870. "[R]ecognized as an important landscape photographer, Bourne entered a partnership with Charles Shepherd" and "became a leading supplier of Indian views" (Pare, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE, p. 251).Read More

[Tibet: ca. 1865]. Bourne cat. # 1132B.A striking group portrait of six Tibetans, including a seated priest reading and fingering prayer beads and a woman, with her back to the camera, displaying an elaborate headdress.British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region... Read More

FROM THE CANTON READING ROOMS

London: John Murray, 1833. First edition. FROM THE CANTON READING ROOMS. A copy from the Canton Reading Rooms, the library of the 13 factories at Canton, China which existed until the factories were destroyed during the Second Opium War. With bookplate of the Newburyport Public Library stating that the book... Read More

London: Longman, Hurst [&c.], 1810. First edition.Thomas Daniell, accompanied by his nephew William, left England on the China-bound Indiaman in 1785, returning to England by way of India in 1794. The journey, financed in part by the sale of oil paintings of their travels, was documented in William’s journal... Read More

London: Printed for James Knapton, 1688. First English edition, reissue with cancel title-leaf and additional To the Reader preliminary lead.A translation by Henry Wharton of the original French edition, first published the previous year in Leiden, giving a firsthand account of the Goan Inquisition. Charles Dellon (b. 1649), a.... Read More

Philadelphia: P. Byrne, Law Bookseller, 1806. First American Edition (First English is 1806).East's Treatise is the first substantial English legal work subsequent to Blackstone's Commentaries. He was born in Jamaica in 1764, called to the bar in 1786. In 1813 East was chosen to succeed Sir Henry Russell as... Read More